COVID-19 and ANCA-associated vasculitis: recommendations for vaccine preparedness and the use of rituximab

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
• ² Department of Renal Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital and CLINTEC Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine IV (Nephrology and Hypertension), Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiologic Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ⁶ Nephrology Unit, Spedali Civili Hospital, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ⁷ Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Nephrology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
• ⁹ Department of Nephrology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ¹⁰ Department of Nephrology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.